Crane part crashes

(The article is from the Straits Times, April 24 2009)

About 50 tonnes of metal is hanging from the top of a building at Ardmore Park after a crane part collapsed late on Wednesday.

The authorities are investigating the incident, which caused massive traffic jams in the Anderson Road area yesterday morning.

No one was hurt and no property damaged when the crane’s hooking hook - used to lift construction material for an unfinished, 36-storey condominium project – crashed to the ground at about 11.20 pm on Wednesday. It occurred about the same time as an unusually strong wind storm. The rest of the crane, secured by steel cables to a carriage, is dangling about 150m above the street.

The site was unoccupied when the incident happened. Residents of neighboring Abelia Condo have been evacuated.

Comments: I think this crane was sabotaged.

By Chan Hsien Rong